On the transmission of guilt aversion and the evolution of trust
通过建模内疚厌恶的代际传递，研究信任与可信度的演化，发现对手特质完全信息下高内疚个体比例上升并最大化信任，特质不可观察时不同内疚水平共存且信任可能因父母不完美共情或社会同质性而增加。
This paper studies the evolution of trust and trustworthiness by modeling the intergenerational transmission of guilt aversion. The results depend both on features of strategic interaction and about parental transmission. We show that if there is complete information of opponents' traits, independent of parenting style, the share of high-guilt agents in society weakly increases over time, and trust and trustworthiness are maximized. Moreover, when traits are not observable, different levels of guilt always coexist, and trust and trustworthiness might also increase when parents have imperfect empathy in the transmission of traits or if there is homophily in society.